Port railway hall

Port railway hall
Route number :	6801
Route length:	5.8 km
Gauge :	1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Maximum slope :	1:40  ‰
Top speed:	20 km / h
Legend Raffineriestrasse −0.208 Halle (Saale) Thuringian Gbf Weiche 812 Thuringian Railway old route Ottostraße Rossbachstrasse Merseburger Strasse ( B 91 ) with the Halle - Bad Dürrenberg tram route Liebenauer Strasse Halle (Saale) industrial train station Connection to industrial railway Halle (Saale) (1000 mm) Turmstrasse Beesener Strasse with the tram route Republic Street Max-Lademann-Strasse Böllberger Weg with tram route Siding to Böllberger Mühle, Feldschlösschen Brewery, tubular rolling mill Halle (Saale) South / Stadtgut Saale harbor railway bridge Connection to the electricity company Connection gas works (wood yard) Coal railway in partnership 5.0 Halle (Saale) Klaustor to Hettstedt Mansfelder Strasse with tram route Gas station connection (Saline island) Harbor basin (south side) Sophienhafen 5.8 Halle (Saale) Jungfernwiese

The groundbreaking for the Halle port railway took place on June 2, 1893, and on January 9, 1895, Hallesche Hafenbahn AG was able to start operations between the Thuringian freight yard in Halle via Turmstrasse (later Halle Süd industrial station) and Sophienhafen . The six kilometer long freight connection line ran in a long arc to the west and south around the city of Halle and crossed the meter-gauge tram four times. The route was reserved exclusively for freight traffic. To increase the utilization and operation of several industrial plants were built from the station Turmstraße the 1.2 kilometer-long industrial railway Halle (Saale) in the track width of 1,000 millimeters , which led to the Tower Street following the north. The port railway company merged with the Halle-Hettstedter Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft in 1897 .

With the construction of the port railway, the Sophienhafen gained in importance in its function as a goods transshipment point. In addition, the railway supplied the (older) municipal gas works on the Saline Island, as well as the electricity and gas works on the wood yard with coal. In 1926 the port was largely closed. Remnants of the track systems are still in Hafenstrasse today.

From April to July 1945, troops of the American armed forces were stationed in railroad cars at Turmstrasse station.

On March 25, 1952, there was a serious railway accident at the Beesener Strasse level crossing. A tram of line 1 (motor vehicle no. 124, side car no. 224) was hit by the locomotive of the approaching port railway while crossing the level crossing. There were several dead and seriously injured. The level crossing was then equipped with a traffic light system. Before they went into operation, the conductor of the motor vehicle had to get out and make sure that no train was approaching the port railway. Only then was the tram allowed to pass the level crossing.

After the political change in the GDR , the port railway was shut down on July 8, 1991 and dismantled in sections as part of road construction work. Remnants of track can still be found in the area of ​​the Turmstrasse station. Parts of the route are now used as a footpath and bike path. The port railway bridge ( 51 ° 28 ′ 17 ″  N , 11 ° 57 ′ 24.6 ″  E ), which was built in steel construction for the transition across the Saale between Böllberger Weg and Pulverweiden and consists of a girder , is now available to pedestrians.

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  Port railway line in Merseburger Strasse

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  Locomotive shed on the industrial railway at Turmstrasse station

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  Former railway tracks of the port railway as a cycle and footpath

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  Hafenbahnbrücke (today a bicycle bridge)

Web links

Commons : Hafenbahntrasse (Halle)  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Route on Google Maps

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Rainer Smile / Uwe Schmidt: Quality of Life for the City - The History of the Stadtwerke Halle an der Saale. Hain-Verlag, Weimar and Jena 2005, ISBN 3-89807-080-8
2. ↑ Ralph Lüderitz, Hans-Dieter Rammelt: The Halle-Hettstedter Railway - The checkered history of the HHE , p. 112